WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama said Friday he sees a moment of opportunity and "perils" in the Middle East, after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama said after the meeting that the United States has "differences" with Israel over the peace process. Obama opened White House talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday, as both men waged a public row over the shape of an elusive peace with the Palestinians. Netanyahu arrived at the White House with the two leaders embroiled in another spat, the latest to test their tense relationship, at a time of high significance as the Middle East is rocked by "Arab Spring Revolts." The Israeli prime minister, on a trip which will see him embraced by Republicans opposed to the US leader's Israel policy, quarreled with the suggested parameters of peace deal laid out by Obama on Thursday. Obama said that territorial lines in place before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war combined with land-swaps should be the basis for talks on a peace deal with the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told President Barack Obama Friday that Israel could not accept his call to return to its "indefensible" 1967 borders to forge peace with the Palestinians. In a dramatic Oval Office appearance after two hours of talks, which ran considerably over time, Netanyahu warned that a "peace based on illusions will crash eventually on the rocks of Middle Eastern reality." "The only peace that will endure is one that is based on reality, on unshakeable facts. I think for there to be peace, the Palestinians will have to accept some basic realities," a grim-faced Netanyahu said. "We don't have a lot of margin for error, because Mr President, history will not give the Jewish people another chance." Netanyahu said he would work with Obama to seek a secure peace for Israel, but also warned that Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas would have to choose between a new unity pact with Hamas group or peace with Israel. "I hope he makes the right choice," said Netanyahu, after aides had said before the meeting that the United States did not understand the realities on the ground facing Israel at a moment of extraordinary instability. Throughout the Israeli leader's animated statement before the cameras, Obama watched Netanyahu impassively, from a nearby chair a few feet away, with his hand over his mouth. Meanwhile, the diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East on Friday expressed "strong support" for US President Barack Obama's vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace adding to pressure for concessions and a return to talks. The Quartet - the European Union, Russia, United Nations and United States - said that "moving forward on the basis of territory and security" is a foundation for a permanent peace accord. The Quartet said it was backing Obama's "vision" because of the "urgent" need to resolve the conflict. "The Quartet agrees that moving forward on the basis of territory and security provides a foundation for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a final resolution of the conflict through serious and substantive negotiations and mutual agreement on all core issues. Meanwhile, Russia issued a muted response on Friday to US President Barack Obama's call for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal based on 1967 borders, saying it had long backed such a settlement. "Russia has consistently advocated the creation of an independent Palestinian state with these borders and east Jerusalem as its capital," the Kremlin's Deputy Chief of Staff Sergei Naryshkin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency He noted that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last voiced his support for the initiative while on a visit to the West Bank city of Jericho in January. Meanwhile, Poland, France and Germany support the position of US President Barack Obama regarding the conflict in the Middle East, Poland's foreign minister said Friday, backed by German and French counterparts. "We support the courageous message of US President Barack Obama concerning the need for urgent action in order to resolve the conflict in the Middle East," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said following talks with his French and German counterparts Alain Juppe and Guido Westerwelle respectively in Bydgoszcz, northern Poland. "Barack Obama did what Europe advised him to do. Now that he has done it, we are expressing our support," Sikorski said. Meanwhile, Iran on Friday slammed US President Barack Obama's speech on the Middle East as a sign of "despair" and "contradictions" in Washington's policies in the region. "The despair, contradictions and lies are visible in the speech by Mr Obama and his support for the Jewish state clearly shows the racist nature of US policy," said Saeed Jalili from the Supreme National Security Council, the body which sets Iran's national security policy.